Discover at this webinar how the Spring Plains Watershed Repair Pilot Project paves the way for a new approach to building climate resilience and restoring biodiversity in Goldfields landscapes at scale and speed, and how Biolinks Alliance is looking to share and help adapt it for use in other landscapes across the region.
Read MoreDr Chris Pocknee talks about the specialised approach of ecological thinning, one of the innovative interventions used at our Watershed Repair Pilot Project at Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve (NCR) on Taungurung country. This technique is used in dense regrowth Box Ironbark forest to accelerate forest maturation and restore biodiversity.
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Read MoreStagnant forest - Repairing Victorian Landscapes - The Spring Plains Watershed Repair project
Read MoreThe Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, on Taungurung country, in central Victoria is a local hotspot for Swift Parrots and other threatened species. However, its damaged soils are no longer porous enough to absorb rainfall, so less water is available to the landscape and its food webs. Like many other box-ironbark forests, the ecosystem is so damaged that it cannot recover without active restoration interventions.
Read MoreBiolinks Alliance Ecologist Paul Foreman speaks about an exciting ecological restoration project being developed by the Alliance with the Taungurung people, Parks Victoria and the Heathcote community, the Spring Plains Watershed Repair project.
Read MoreOne legacy of the gold mining era was the massive amounts of tailings (sludge) that swept across many floodplains and was a big issue for farmers in Victoria. The original braided floodplains and chains of ponds, and the pastures and crops on this most fertile land, were replaced by infertile sludge that filled in the valleys then rapidly eroded into incised creeks with water tables well below the surface.
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